Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAIRY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 265

TALKED IT OVER K. of P.’s Discuss Advisability of New Home—lnvestigation Ordered. RESIDENCES IN VIEW Final Report Will Be Made at Next Regular Meeting and Question Decided. The session at the“regular meeting of the K. of P. lodge last night was one of great importance and a goodly number of the members were present to assist in arriving at a conclusion upon the question of a newhome for the lodge. Each of the members were called upn to give a short talk upon the advisability of either building a four story building on their lot, which is located south of the Everett and Hite grocery store or to purchase a residence that is suitably located, which they would equip with modern conveniences. Ninety per cent of the attendance favored the latter for several reasons, and a committee together with the trustees, will make a thorough investigation and file a final report at the next regular meeting. Should this order decide to buy a residence, a cellar will be put in under the entire building, a furnace installed, a club room and a room for the Rathbone sisters arranged on the first floor beside dining rooms and a kitchen. A reading room will also be installed on the first floor, where periodicals of the latest publication will be on hand all the time. This plan is a good one. and it is no surprise that the majority of the members favor the project as it will be much cheaper and just as good if not better, than to build. The residences that the K. of P.’s have in view are the J. S. Bower property, corner of Third and Monroe streets, the Gus Sellemeyer property on First street, the Studebaker property on Third street and another favorable location (Continued on page 2.) ARRANGEDETAILS For Poultry and Pet Stock Show to be Held Here in January.

BOARD MET TODAY Premium Lists Will be Out Soon—Show Will be Best Ever Given Here. The executive board of the Adams county poultry and pet stock show' met this morning at the law office i of Fruchte, bitterer' and company and perfected all the minor details governing the poultry show to be held in this city commencing January 7, 1908, and lasting for four days. Every member of the board was present and the meeting w r as harmonious in every respect. The committee has not fully determined the exact place they expect to hold the show as they have several rooms In view and will take the one that is best adapted for (their use. They are receiving letters daily from large poultry concerns desiring to know what the restrictions are governing the same, and all of these missives will be answered in shape of a catalogue, which will be out within the next thirty days. Several additional special prizes will be added to the show this year and a number of local business men have notified the association that they would be on hand with several indi vidual prizes that W’tll make the com petition that much stronger. T e show promises to be the best ever he by the local association and they 100 for a far larger display of fowls and pet stock than ever before. John K. Hughes, a veterinary surgeon of Dunkirk. Ind., probably has been arrested more times than any one else in eastern Indiana, but the r. cords show that be has won the n *ne teen cases that have been filed again t him. Hughes is president of the nongraduate veterinations, and. although have been acquitted of several, he a mite that ha has no license.

ALL SAINTS DAY OBSERVED. Holiday Celebrated in Usual Form Today. Today was All Saints day at the Catholic church and the event was celebrated in an appropriate manner and with impressive services. The day was a holiday and our city was thronged with people who attended the special services. This event is celebrated w ith the same kind of services that are had on Sunday, early mass being conducted at seven-thirty o'clock by Father Wilken, high mass at nine thirty by Father George, and vespers were held this afternoon at two-thirty o'clock. Owing to a special dispensation the members of the church are today permitted to eat meat which is a very rare occurrence. However, to comply with the former ruling and workings of the church. Thursday was observed as a fast day. The services were all attended and the day celebrated in a fitting manner. MUST PAY TAXES Extension of Time not Permitted Under Law Says State Auditor. WORKS A HARDSHIP On Many People Owing to Stringency of Money and Uncertain Markets. Next Monday is the last day for paying taxes and the recent flurry has made it rather hard for the farmer and others to secure the necessaryfunds as tnere is just at present no market for grain or stock and it is next to impossible to borrow money. Realizing the conditions and believing that a few days will loosen up the money matters, County Treasurer John F. Lachot wrote to state auditor John C. Billheimer, asking for an extension of ten days, but that official believes that such an act would be a violation of the laws and that any officer doing so would be liable for the penalty personally. His letter follows: Hon. John F. Lachot, Treasurer of Adams county, Decatur. Ind.: Dear Sir: —I have your favor of the 29th, relative to extending time for paying taxes. The law provides that all taxes shall be paid on or before the first Monday of May and November of each year, and nobody, neither the state nor county auditor can extend any time to a delinquent, without imposing the penalty upon the delinquent, if he goes beyond either of these dates. If you were to extend the time beyond the first Monday of November even upon the state auditor's permission, you would be personally liable upon your bond to the state and county, for the penalty of all taxes collected by you after the first Monday. This law may work something of a hardship. I cannot say about that, but it is the law. and nobody has any right to change it in any way. It seems to me that if taxpayers pay with check on a bank where they have the money and you deposit the check at the bank to your own credit as treasurer, which you would do if they paid you cash, that they can as well pay before the first Monday as after. If they do not have the money now they will not have it ten days after, most likely. I would like to grant the extension in this case, but this is not possible. Yours very truly, JOHN C. BILLHEIMER, Auditor of State. Any taxpayer can pay his taxes by check. Business of all kinds is being carried on in this way, and no hardship is done any one. Farmers can sell their grafn or anything else they wish and receive pyament by check. The business men of Decatur will take care of all the business that comes their way. —o — Hartford Citv dairymen have caught the infection. They have announced another raise in the price of milk, to take effect November 1. October 1 milk was advanced from 5 cents a quart to 6% cents a quart and cream was advanced from 10 cents to 12% cents a pint. The new raise puts milk at 7 cents a quart and cream at 14 cents a pint. (

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, November I, 1907.

COMING THIS WAY Family of Beggars, Driven Out of Ft. Wayne, Start for Decatur. WATCH FOR THEM And Notify the Authorities —They Deserve Nothing in the Way of Charity. Fredrick Schafer, his wife, another woman and three children were ordered to leave town this noon by Humane Officer Schlaudroff and Chief of Police Ankenbruck. Schafer and his tribe came here from Paulding, 0., four days ago and located in a house along Maumee river, near the Summit City Soap Works, at the north end of Glasgow avenue. Schafer has been spending the time since arrival in the saloons in that vicinity and has kept himself pretty well tanked up. The two women and the three children divided the town up into sections and started a systematic begging crusade. They wore old clothes, shabby in their make-up, and prepared for the task of begging like professionals. They have been so successful that they have been seen going home just loaded down with good things to eat and also with money, for the bead or the house would go out after their return -trips to nearby saloons and return laden w-ith bottles of beer and good cigars. He lived in fine style, but failed to wash his face, his hands, or even to comb his hair. He looked the picture of poverty. The conduct of the sextette of beggars attracted the attention of the neighborhood and complaints were made to the officials. When the order was issued for the tribe to leave the city they presented no argument. There was no delay in their going. They started away at once laden with clothes, edibles and also money. They stated that they would go to Decatur. They were ordered to leave Allen county and return home. —Fort Wayne News. CASE IS IMPORTANT Judge Fox Decided Law Suit Against Calvin Miller, of this City. IS OF MUCH INTEREST Traction Engine Owner Must Pay for Damages Incurred to Streets of City. The evidence in the case of the city of Winchester vs. Calvin Miller has all been submitted in the Wayne circuit court and the interested parties are now awaiting the decision of Judge Fox. The case aroused a great deal of interest here and a large number of people went to Richmond as witnesses. Miller, who is a resident of Decatur, took a contract to build a crushed stone road south of town. He hauled the material, several wagon loads at a time, from the railroad here, using a big traction engine as the motive power, and the city claimed that the engine pulling the heavy load badlydamaged Wesern avenue. An injunction was secured against Miller and the suit went to Wayne county on a change of , venue. Miller employed several attorneys and contested the 'injunction. —Winchester Herald. Mr. Miller arrived here Thursday evening and says the court decided against him, and stated that he would estimate the amount of damages in a few days, intimating that they would "be slight. If this decision stands, it bars the traction engine from every town and city in the state and it is probable that the Gaar, Scott and Co. and other manufacturers will insist upon Mr. Miller appealing the case. ——o— ~— Soap played a very prominent factor in the Hallo w'een exercises last evening and practically every showwindow in our city received a dose of this kind of treatment. In some respects this was all right, while in others it was all wrong. However, a little water will soon remedy the wrong.

GETS EXCITING AT CLEVELAND The Mayoralty Election There Going at a Merry Clip. Cleveland, Nov. 1, —The Cleveland mayoralty campaign has reached the arrest stage. Both parties have had sleuths out investigating the heavy registration, and as a result fifteen warrants have already been sworn out, charging illegal registration, while two hundred more are expected. Incidentally, the grand jury has indicted John Stanley, general manager of the Cleveland Electric Railway company, on a charge of tampering with witnesses before the grand jury in its investigation of the registration rolls. It is charged that Stanley told witnesses what testimony to give, when they were summoned before the jury. Stanley is a suporter of Congressman Burton, and the Republicans charge that his indictment is a campaign move. The prosecuting attorney is a Democrat. Stanley gave bail. The offense is punishable by a fine or workhouse sentence. _ GOBLINS WERE OUT Hallow’een Proved a Night of Merrymaking in this Old Town. CROWDS OF MASKERS Thronged the Streets and Many Pranks Were Indulged in—Damage. It has been a number of years since Hallow’een was celebrated in Decatur as it was last evening, and today complaints can be heard from all quarters as to the amount of damage done here and there by the various crowds that celebrated in the old fashioned style. As early as six o'clock the crowd commenced to congregate on main street and at eight it was a hard matter to worm yourself througn, and from that time on until a late hour the fun continued. Everybody was masked and were “cutting up” and making fun as only a crowd of good natured people can. Numerous masquerade parties and social events were had in various parts of our city and reports from all of these signify a fine time. The usual amount of depredations that generally follows the old time custom of celebrating Hallow’een were carried out to an extent that has seldom been equaled in Decatur and although several extra police were on duty they were unable to stop the merrymakers and much- damage was done under the very noses of the police. Various property owners have come to the front with stories concerning the destruction of property and in all probability the amount of damage done will reach into the hundreds of dollars. This part of celebrating Hallow’een is entirely out of order and these participating should be made to suffer as this is the only manner in which to stop the pranks of the boys, who 'do the work, but to do this it would require the services of hundreds of police. So, under the circumstances, the best those who have-suffered can do is to put on a smiling countenance and consider themselves lucky that they got off so easy. No arrests were made by the police, although several names of mischief makers are in the hands of the police and may be used. However, it is thought at this time no complaints will be filed. Q. AFTER ELWOOD UNDERTAKERS Secretary Board of Health Looking After Law Violations. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, has begun an investigation of the methods employed by undertakers at Elwood, and it has been revealed that two undertakers of that city have made 150 illegal burials during the nine months ending September 30. Dr. Hurty says that Edgar M. Clark and Mark E. Winnings, the two undertakers whose business he is investigating, have buried 150 bodies without first obtaining burial permits from the health officer, and that the 150 death certificates Issued by the - physicians in these cases have been held up by the undertakers and have not been forwarded to the state board by the local health officers.

MISS HARB DEAD Popular Young Decatur Lady Died at Neosha, Mo., Wednesday. WHILE ON A VISIT Hemorrhage of Stomach the Cause—Remains to Be Interred Here. Mrs. George Chronister this morning received a message from Neosha, Missouri, announcing that her daughter, Miss Grace Harb, had died Wednesday evening at nine-thirty o’clock at the home of her brother. Orla Harb, at the above named place, after an illness of three weeks duration, death resulting from hemorrhages of the stomach. Miss Harb left several months ago for Neosha, Mo., with the view of making an extended visit with her brother, whom she had not seen for some time, and to take a much needed rest and try and recover her former good health, as she had been ailing for some time. She arrived at her destination all right and for a time seemed to be gaining in strength and health. However, three weeks ago she suffered from a hemorrhage of I the stomach, and from that time on her decline was rapid, death relieving her Wednesday evening. Miss Harb was twenty-nine years of age, and for some years had made her home in this city, residing with her mother, Mrs. George Chronister on south Tenth street. She was a popular young lady and her friends were innumerable and they will be grieved to learn of her untimely death. The remains will be brought to this city for interment the exact time of the arrival of the same cannot be announced at this time and the funeral arrangements will be made accordingly and will be announced later. longTosTchild Will Return to Her Mother, Mrs. Wright, of Bryant, this Week. STOLEN YEARS AGO Mother and Father Separated and Latter Stole the Baby from Mother.

Mrs. Catherine Wright, wife of I. N., better known as “Newt” Wright, a section foreman on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, at Bryant, is expecting a visit the latter part of this week, from her daughter, now living in Michigan, whom she has not seen since she was a baby, three years old. Something more than a score of years ago, Mrs. Wright was the wife of Robert Young. When the daughter was between two and three years of age, she and her mother were abandoned by the father who went to Michigan. Some time later, he returned and stole away the daughter, and despite all efforts of the mother, neither were located. The daughter grew to young womanhood in the Wolverine state, and is now married and the mother of a bright-eyed little girl. Some time after the desertion by her husband, Mrs. Young obtained a divorce and married her present husband. To his three children she has since been mother and has learned to love them as her own. Mts. Wright is awaiting with* eagerness, the arrival of her own daughter, whom she knows only as the little girl who was stolen away, and is divided between hope and fear, as she sometimes doubts whether the old love for her little one has remained as strong in her breast, as has grown that for her foster brood. —Portland Commercial-Review. —Potland Commercial Review. o — Mr. and Mrs. Levi Nelson have returned to the city after enjoying a short visit with friends at Monroe.

TOBACCO GROWERS POOLING. They Are After the Tobacco Trust and Want to Beat Them. Boonville, Ind., Nov. I.—lt is expected within a few days that the tobacco growers who are canvassing Kentucky will cross the Ohio into War-* rick,'Spencer and Dubois counties, the three counties of Indiana which are known as tobacco-producing counties, and try to persuade the growers to pool their crops. Representatives of the American Tobacco company which is buying the bulk of the crop in southern Indiana, say that the situation is critical in Kentucky and that the trust has reason to anticipate trouble and possibly damage before the growers and their canvass of the territory of tobacco growers. For fear their barns will be burned in these counties the trust will not store their tobacco, but will ship it as fast as possible. The trust has bought 500,000 pounds in this county and as soon as it comes in it will be shipped away. NOTE CIRCULATION Many Banks Favor Additional Circulation Scheme. SHUT THEM OUT Elihu Root Mentioned for President—Canada Home. Washington, Nov. 1. —Treasury officials are agreeably surprised at the number of banks throughout the country which have already indicated their purpose to comply with the suggestion of the controller of the currency Ridgely that additional circulation be taken out. Although the suggestion was made only yesterday afternoon, a large number of telegrams were received at the department as early as 9 o’clock today asking for additional circulation in various amounts from a few thousand dollars to two millions. George E. Roberts, former director of the mint and now president of the Commercial National bank of Chicago, is here and has engaged $2,000,000 additional circulation for his bank. Solomon Wexter, vice-pres-ident of the Whitney-Central National bank of New Orleans, is also here and is making arrangements materially to increase his holdings. Other prominent bankers, through Washington representatives, are arranging to deposit the necessary securities preparatory to taking out national banknotes to the limit of their capital stock.

Washington, Nov. 1 —The Pacific coast members of congress have informally given notice to the president that they will at the coming session ask for radical legislation affecting the admission of Japanese coolies into the United tSates. Secretary Straus, of the department of commerce and labor, agrees with the coast members that the legislation of last winter has proved ineffective. Japanese laborers have been coming in by the wholesale 'right alongand the bureau of immigration has not been able to stop the incoming tide. Washington, Nov. I.—Senator Scott of West Virginia, who was among the president's callers today, said on leaving the white house, that he would like to see some one start a boom for Elihu Root for president. “His name ought to go before the convention,” said the senator. “He is one of the greatest men this country has produced. Personally I am for him for the nomination and my state, I am sure, would be glad to support him.” Washington, Nov. 1. —William W. Canada, of Winchester, Ind., United States consul at Vera Cruz, Mex., is here, enroute to his old home on a vacation. Mr. Canada was one of the early appointees of President Me- _ Kinley, and has been at the Mexican post since the spring of 1897. Mr. Canada reports twenty-five Americans now living at Vera Cruz, and says they are all doing well. o Some miscreant swipped the Lose and Shrank barber sign last evening and placed it upon top of their place of business, and thus it stood until early this morning when the boys removed it. Fortunately the sign was not hurt in the least.

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.UNIQUE PARTIES . Held All Over the City— Hallow’een the Occasion — . Many Costumes. A SLUMBER PARTY I ‘ f Masquerade Affairs in Different Parts of City—All Were Delightful. Miss Lucile Hale gave a delightful slumber party at her home last night for the members of the Menu-ate club. From seven to nine o’clock the girls attended the services at the M. E. church, after which they repaired to the home of the hostess, where an excellent time was had until a late hour. Special music and other amusements were in order and until time for retirement, the merry guests proceeded to enjoy themselves to the limit. This morning at nine o’clock, breakfast was served to the members of this popular club, and all did justice to This event is only a verification of the entertaining qualities possessed by these girls, and their gatherings are always most pleasant ones. Those who attended were the Misses Edna and Emma Hoffman, Marie Beery, Frances Merryman, Pansy Bell and Winnifred Johnson. The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Frisinger was the scene of a delightful masquerade party last night, when a number of their neighbors rushed into their home and completely surprised them. Costumes of every description were to be seen and the affair was great to behold. Those present were Mesdames M. Gilson, of Cardw'ell, Mo., Peoples, George Everett, H. Myers, C. Lee, E. Archer, C. Hocker, J. Caster, J. Porter, C. Shroll, S. E. Shamp, G. W. Winters and U. S. Cress. Mrs. Peter Gaffer was pleasantly surprised last night when a crowd of (Continued on page 2.) THE DATE IS FIXED Democratic County Primary Will be Held on Friday, December 6th. RULES, REGULATIONS Adopted at the Meeting of the Democratic Central

Committee Today. t i '“The scramble for nominations for > county offices, on the Democratic tick- » et began today, when the central comf mittee met to decide upon the date • and adopt rules and regulations for - this important event. The session was I held at Meibers hall and was an en- > thusiastic and interesting one, open- > ing at ten o'clock this morning. Coun- ■ ty Chairman John C. Moran presided > and E. Burt Lenhart served as secretary. Committees on rules and assessments were reported in due time and their reports were unanimously adopted. The date was fixed for Friday, December 6th, five weeks from today, this being the date generally preferred by the candidaes, most of whom favored a short campaign. The rules were fair and impartial for every candidate and if observed, will produce a clean, wholesome campaign. The rules will be published in full in tomorrow's issue. The committee on rules consisted of F. C. Foreman, Ernest Doelfrman, Augustus Straub, F. V. Mills and James M. Duff. Committee on assessments, L. A. Holthouse, W. W. Briggs, H. H. Harruff, E. B. Lenhart and Rudolph Schug. Dore B. Erwin gave a short talk, jfull of democratic thoughts, which pleased his hearers. Chairman Moran then introduced the various candidates there being four for auditor, three for treasurer, three for surveyor, two for representative, two for commissioner ■first district, and one for prosecuting attorney, sheriff and coroner. The candidates as announced were as follows : For representative—Thurman Gottschalk, Berne; V. Linker, Kirkland township. (Continued on page 2.) _ ,